Verizon Removes 10 Phones from $350 ETF List

Representing Verizon Wireless's #1 Premium Retailer in the midwest I agree that in many cases the $350 ETA fee is justified. Retailers and other privately owned dealers like ourselves are taking large hits as equipment costs have increased from $100-$250 2-3 years ago to $250-$600 on higher end handsets.

Remaining competitive Verizon still offers these handsets and record low prices and many times Buy One Get One Free promotions. Who eats the profits? Answer: The dealers that still pay regular price for the equipment.

Many customers realized quickly that you could do a BOGO promotion, pay the ETAs, sell the phones at retail and make a decent profit. This is unethical and bad business.

Account verizon fanboy let me put this straight. I sell the following at my retailer, At@t, Verizon, Tmo, and Sprint. The Black berry curve that is free right now, no rebate no buy one get one free, is 619.99 noncontract. I got news for you, Our co...(continues)

I agree and don't agree with you on this. Keep in mind I am in the wireless industry. However, contracts were really designed because people in the United States do want something for free. This is almost soloy why we have contracts. The UK pay full p...(continues)

Let me say this again, PREPAID, PREPAID, PREPAID... its not just for the people with poor credit anymore. You can get so much more for less this way and not have to sign a contract or pay all those taxes, Pageplus has 1200 minutes 1200 text and 50mb o...(continues)

So I was going to buy a Droid, my contract with Verizon is over and I thought, OK take advantage of new every two, take out another 2 year contract and get the discount on the Droid, then they decided to put the new $350 fee into effect. That's when I decided what I have been thinking of doing anyway, and that is getting the Iphone and going with AT&T. Their network is not bad in this area and they just came out with a $99 unlimited Data and Talk. So...... I'm doing it!

Why would you even care about the ETF if you were planning on staying with Verizon for another two years? The ETF is basically just to stop people who take advantage of there discounted prices for those good phones and then cancelling there account wi...(continues)